31.3390, Books: Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Weideman, Read, du Plessis (eds.)

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Subject: 31.3390, Books: Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Weideman, Read, du Plessis (eds.)

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Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:43:34
From: Flo McClelland [flo at multilingual-matters.com]
Subject: Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society: Weideman, Read, du Plessis (eds.)

 


Title: Assessing Academic Literacy in a Multilingual Society 
Subtitle: Transition and Transformation 
Series Title: New Perspectives on Language and Education  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
	   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781788926201 


Editor: Albert Weideman
Editor: John Read
Editor: Theo du Plessis

Hardback: ISBN:  9781788926201 Pages: 280 Price: U.S. $ 149.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781788926201 Pages: 280 Price: U.K. £ 109.95


Abstract:

South African universities face major challenges in meeting the needs of their
students in the area of academic language and literacy. The dominant medium of
instruction in the universities is English and, to a much lesser extent,
Afrikaans, but only a minority of the national population are native speakers
of these languages. Nine other languages can be media of instruction in
schools, which makes the transition to tertiary education difficult enough in
itself for students from these schools. The focus of this book is on
procedures for assessing the academic language and literacy levels and needs
of students, not in order to exclude students from higher education but rather
to identify those who would benefit from further development of their ability
in order to undertake their degree studies successfully. The volume also aims
to bring the innovative solutions designed by South African educators to a
wider international audience.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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